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Dave SnowdenFounder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge |
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 /VIEW-IMAGE/$File/view-image.png "Image information"){kind=small} He is Founder & Chief Scientific Officer -Cognitive Edge (formerly the Cynefin Centre) which focuses on the development of the theory and practice of social complexity. The Cynefin Centre spun off from IBM in July 2005 to allow it greater freedom to explore new trans-disciplinary and participatory approaches to research and the creation of an open source approach to management consultancy. The Cynefin framework which lies at the heart of the approach has been recognized by several commentators as one of the first practical application of complexity theory to management science and builds on earlier pioneering work in Knowledge Management. A native of Wales, he was formerly a Director in the IBM Institute for Knowledge Management where he led programmes on complexity and narrative. He pioneered the use of narrative as a means of knowledge disclosure and cross-cultural understanding. He is a leading keynote speaker at major conferences around the world and is known for his iconoclastic style, pragmatic cynicism and extensive use of stories to communicate what would otherwise be difficult concepts. Tom Stewart, the new editor of Harvard Business Review in his latest book states in the context of tacit knowledge "Dave Snowden, the best thinker I've found on the subject ..." although by way of counter he also comments "he is Welsh and a bit mad". Dave Snowden has an MBA from Middlesex University and a BA in Philosophy from Lancaster University. He is adjunct Professor of Knowledge Management at the University of Canberra, an honorary fellow in knowledge management at the University of Warwick, Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and MiNE Fellow at the Universita Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore in Italy. He teaches on various university programmes throughout the world. He regularly consults at the board level with some of the world's largest companies as well as to Government and NGOs and was recently appointed as an advisor on sense making to the Singaporean Ministry of Defence. In addition he sits on a number of advisory and other bodies including the British Standards Institute committee on standards for Knowledge Management.
Blog Post  Dave Snowden is blogging!Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 17 August 2006 How Do We Make People Do Things?Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 12 November 2007 A Leader's Framework for Decision MakingGurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 14 November 2007 A summary of Dave Snowden's recent workGurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 28 November 2007 Satisfaction Surveys (Are you satisfied?)Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 18 February 2008 Setting targets for knowledge sharingGurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 7 June 2008 Is KM Dead? Larry Prusak, Dave Snowden, Patrick LambeGurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 6 July 2008 Dave Snowden's 7 Principles of Knowledge ManagementGurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 22 February 2009 Can you measure personality?Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 26 September 2009 The best defintion of KM yet!Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 27 September 2009 How to organise a children's partyPosted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 15 November 2009 The chef & the recipe book userPosted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 15 November 2009 A talk by Dr David Vaine on 4th generation knowledge management!Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 16 November 2009 The Tyranny of the ExplicitPosted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 17 December 2009 On data, information, knowledge and wisdomPosted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 11 February 2010 A colossal Knowledge Management failure!Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 8 March 2010 Blogging and tweeting from the recent HKKMS Conference in Hong KongPosted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 4 April 2010 Does willpower have its limits?Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 28 July 2010 Book  Knowledge Horizons (2000) by Charles Despres  , Daniele Chauvel The Present and the Promise of Knowledge Management Category  Organizational Complexity [13 items]Download  Dave Snowden MaterialsVarious presentations & whitepapers from Dave Snowden Link Cognitive EdgeDave Snowden's Cognitive-Edge Organization (formerly the Cynefin Centre)  Cognitive Edge Newsletter: FragmentsMail Post KM Australia and Gurteen Knowledge CafePosted to Gurteen Mail Log by David Gurteen on 29 May 2007 actKM conferencePosted to Gurteen Mail Log by David Gurteen on 19 September 2008 David Gurteen is planning to visit Australia and New Zealand in Sept 2009Posted to Gurteen Mail Log by David Gurteen on 28 May 2009 HKKMS Annual Conference + Workshops, Hong Kong 30 - 31 March 2010Posted to Gurteen Mail Log by David Gurteen on 18 March 2010 Media File  Video: Dave Snowden on fluffy bunnies & techno-fetishistsPast Event  Knowledge Summit 2003 Knowledge 2003: sharing best practices for implementing successful knowledge management initiatives 01 - 03 Jun 2003, Marcus Evans Kurhaus Hotel, The Hague, Netherlands KC UK 2006  04 - 06 Jul 2006, Ark Group Ibis London Earls Court  , London, United Kingdom KMAP 2006: The 3rd Asia-Pacific International Conference on Knowledge Management  The Knowledge Powerhouse for the Future 11 - 13 Dec 2006, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University , City University of Hong Kong The Hong Kong Polytechnic University , Hong Kong, China KM Russia-2007 05 - 06 Apr 2007, Global Forum Moscow, Russia KM India 2007 The Knowledge Summit 14 - 16 Nov 2007, Confederation of Indian Industry Le Meridien Hotel, New Delhi, India Innovation in Managing Knowledge for the Competitive Edge Workshops on Knowledge Capture and Transfer 30 Jun - 02 Jul 2008, Paradigm Systems Kuala Lumpur Convention Center , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Cognitive Edge Narrative Research Linking Quantitative with Qualitative 24 Feb 2009, Cognitive Edge Amsterdam, Netherlands KM Australia 2009 From Diverse Perspectives 04 - 07 Aug 2009, Ark Group Australia Crystal Palace, Luna Park, Sydney, Australia Making KM Productive 2010 Knowledge Management Conference 30 Mar 2010, Hong Kong Knowledge Management Society Langham Place Hotel, Mongkok , Hong Kong, China KM UK 2010 Knowledge Management UK 2010 15 - 16 Jun 2010, Ark Group De Vere Canary Wharf , London, United KingdomPerson  Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge Ralph Stacey Professor of Management & Director of the Complexity & Management Centre at the Business School of the University of Hertfordshire, UK
Ron Donaldson Senior Knowledge Ecologist, English NatureQuotation  On eureka innovation by Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge On KM and certification by Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge On knowing more than we can say (KM Principle 7) by Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge On knowing what we know (KM Principle 2) by Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge On Knowledge Management and idealistic solutions. by Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge On the fragmentation of knowledge (KM Principle 4) by Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge On the idealistic verses naturalistic approach by Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge On the way we report what we know (KM Principle 6) by Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge On tolerated failure and learning (KM Principle 5) by Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge On volunteering knowledge (KM Principle 1) by Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge On withholding knowledge (KM Principle 3) by Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive EdgeReport Story Don't re-invent the wheel by Dave SnowdenA story on not reinventing the wheel Quotations from Dave Snowden:  True Eureka innovation is not going to happen by an internal training programme but from engagement in the real world.Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge I have a passion for KM as one of the first disciplines that
used properly puts people first and is itself a learning environment which
should encourage diversity. That passion means that I will fight attempts
to standardise or "certify" the discipline.Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge We always know more than we can say, and we will always say more than we can write down.Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge We only know what we know when we need to know it.Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge Knowledge Management should be focused on real, tangible intractable problems not aspirational goals. It should deal pragmatically with the evolutionary possibilities of the present rather then seeking idealistic solutions.Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge Everything is fragmented.Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge In the idealistic approach, the leaders of an organization set out an ideal future state that they wish to achieve, identify the gap between the ideal and their perception of the present, and seek to close it. This is common not only to process-based theory but also to practice that follows the general heading of the "learning organization". Naturalistic approaches, by contrast, seek to understand a sufficiency of the present in order to act to stimulate evolution of the system. Once such stimulation is made, monitoring of emergent patterns becomes a critical activity so that desired patterns can be supported and undesired patterns disrupted. The organization thus evolves to a future that was unknowable in advance, but is more contextually appropriate when discovered. Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge The way we know is not the way we report what we know.
Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge Tolerated failure imprints learning better than success.Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge Knowledge can only be volunteered; it can never be conscripted.Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge In the context of real need few people withhold knowledge.Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge
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